About the Authors

Garima Juyal

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Delhi, South Campus, New Delhi, India

Pushplata Prasad

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Delhi, South Campus, New Delhi, India

Sabyasachi Senapati

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Delhi, South Campus, New Delhi, India

Vandana Midha

Affiliation Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Ajit Sood

Affiliation Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India

Devendra Amre

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, Research Center, Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Canada

Ramesh C. Juyal

Affiliation National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Thelma BK

thelmabk@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Delhi, South Campus, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TBK RCJ AS VM DA GJ. Performed the experiments: GJ PP. Analyzed the data: GJ PP SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TBK VM AS. Wrote the paper: GJ. Candidate gene associations and resequencing: GJ MS. Editing: GJ PP SS VM AS DA RCJ TBK.